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For Roy Jenkins one of the most memorable descriptions of Winston Churchill's leadership in those days in 1940 when Hitler's forces gathered across the Channel poised to invade came in the film Darkest Hour now on general release. Its attributed there to a senior cabinet colleague after Churchill's famous 'We shall fight them on the beaches,' speech: 'He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.' It's a great image.

Words have immense capacity both to create and destroy, to inspire and demean. And they can hurt very much indeed - leading to all kinds of injustice.

"The Power of Words" was the theme chosen to mark yesterday's Holocaust Memorial Day. . The organisers hope that a focus on how language has been used in the past will help us understand how it can be employed for both good and ill, and make us all think about how we use our words....a topical theme indeed for the era of social media and so-called fake news.

To explore some of the issues all this raises Roy is joined by The Rt. Rev. Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds, well known to early morning listeners of Radio 2 and Radio 4. He's just stepped down as chair of the Sandford St. Martin Trust, which promotes excellence in Religious Broadcasting; Ifor ap Glyn, broadcaster and National Poet of Wales; Dr. Kerry Moore, Senior Lecturer at the Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture; and Rabbi Michoel Rose of the Cardiff United Synagogue.